The most commonly cited source on Mary Wollstonecraft is Caroline Franklin's ''Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life''. No fan of Wollstonecraft, Caroline lays out the more distasteful events of her life, including premarital sex resulting in a child, opiate addiction and previously undiscovered work as a courtesan to [[William Pitt]]. She held [[Jacobin]] sympathies and publicly renounced her Christian faith whilst in [[Paris]] during the [[French Revolution]]. Franklin also hints at Wollstonecraft's lesbian sympathies, as suggested by her husband [[William Godwin]] following her death from septicemia in 1797 after giving birth to her and Godwin's daughter [[Mary Shelley|Mary]], who went on to marry [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] and to write the novel ''[[Frankenstein]]''.<ref>http://womenshistory.about.com/od/wollstonecraft/a/wollstonecraft-legacy.htm</ref> | The most commonly cited source on Mary Wollstonecraft is Caroline Franklin's ''Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life''. No fan of Wollstonecraft, Caroline lays out the more distasteful events of her life, including premarital sex resulting in a child, opiate addiction and previously undiscovered work as a courtesan to [[William Pitt]]. She held [[Jacobin]] sympathies and publicly renounced her Christian faith whilst in [[Paris]] during the [[French Revolution]]. Franklin also hints at Wollstonecraft's lesbian sympathies, as suggested by her husband [[William Godwin]] following her death from septicemia in 1797 after giving birth to her and Godwin's daughter [[Mary Shelley|Mary]], who went on to marry [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] and to write the novel ''[[Frankenstein]]''.<ref>http://womenshistory.about.com/od/wollstonecraft/a/wollstonecraft-legacy.htm</ref> |